Check-receiver



(No Model.)

A. B. GILL.

CHECK RECEIVER.

No. 324,677. Patented Aug. 18, 1885.

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PATENT OEEIcE.

ASHER B. GILL, OE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHECK-RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION ibrmin part of Letters Patent No. 324,677, dated August 18, 1885.

Application filed December 6, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, AsHER B. GILL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in GheclcReccivers, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of check-receiver embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a view of the interior thereof. Fig. 3 represents avertical section in line mm, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention relates to improvements in a check-receiver; and it consists of the construc tion thereof as hereinafter fully set forth, whereby the inserted check, while causing the ringingof a bell, is also prevented from being withdrawn from the inlet.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the casing of a cheek-receiver, and B represents a mouth or inlet therein for the entrance of the checks.

0 represents a rotary disk which is mounted within the casing near the mouth B, and provided with fingers D, which when the disk is rotated projects across the path of the throat B of said mouth.

Vithin the casing is secured abell or gong, E, the hammer F whereof is pivoted in such position adjacent to the disk Othat its heel F will be engaged by the fingers D of said disk when the latter is rotated.

To the portion of the casing near the mouth B is secured an arm, G, which is pressed by a suitable spring against astrip, H, at the side of the throat B opposite to the disk 0, said strip being rigidly held in position, and said arm having its lower orinner end bent around the adjacent end of the strip H, forming a lip, a, for temporarily arresting the inserted check. The upper part of the arm G has a shoulder, 11, for purposes to be hereinafter explained.

It will be noticed that the fingers D take hold of the inserted check on its edge, so that the same is not defaced or punctured thereby. The operation is as follows: The checks may be deposited by the waiter who gives the checks, or the customer who receives the same,

or the clerk in charge. A check is first inserted in the mouth B, and as it descends it strikes one of the fingers D and rotates the disk 0, and continues its motion between the periphery of the disk and the strip H until it reaches the lip a, which acts as a stop.

Mcanwhile one of the fingers D bears against the side of the bell-hammer and trips the same, whereby the bell is rung, thus directing attention to the fact that the check has been properly introduced into the throat B. It will now be seen that the check rests 011 one side between two fingers of the disk 0 and on'the other side between the lip a and shoulder b of the arm G, so that it cannot descend further without pressure from above. Lateral motion of the check is prevented by the pe riphery of the disk 0 on one side, and the rigid strip H on the other side, said strip thus being both a guide and guard for the check. The abstraction of the check through the mouth B is only possible by the rotation of the disk in the reverse direction to that occasioned by the descent or advance of the check into the throat; but it will be noticed that the finger which tripped the bel1han11ner has cleared the side of the heel of the same and now rests directly against the back of said heel, so as to be controlled by the same, and thus the return motion of the disk is prevented. When another check is insertedin the mouth B and forced toward the throat B, it pushes the previouslyfinserted check through the throat, overcoming the holding power of the arm G. The disk 0 rotates, and the check drops from the lower finger into the body of the casing, and thence into the drawer, which is under lock and key. The second cheek now occupies the throat B, and is guarded as in the other case, and it has caused the ringing of the bell so that its service has been announced and the same will be consideredin the subsequent count of checks removed from the drawer in making up the report of the business for which the register is intended.

The casing has the side plate, A, separate for necessary purposes of manufacturing the register, said plate being afterward held in position by screws, which, of course, could be removed and the side plate detached, thus exposing the check. To prevent this, the fixed and removable side pl ates are formed with eyes J to receive hooks K, the ends of which are bent around the eyes, access thereto being had through the space occupied by the drawer. Consequently when the plate A is secured in position, and the hooks K are connected with the eyes J, said plate cannot separate from the outside, the hooks K and the eyes J being accessible only when the drawer is removed, which, as has been stated, is under lock and to key, controlled by the proprietor or other authorized person. Hence the security of the fastening of side plate.

In order that the number, denomination, or character of the eheclalodged in the throat B may be seen from the outside, the opposite walls of said throat are cut away, and the spaces thus formed occupied by pieces of glass, as at d, so that the check may be seen from both sides of the register, without, however, being accessible.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1.. A cheek-receiver having an inlet and a rotary wheel provided with lingers on its periphery, said wheel being on one side ofthesaid inlet and having its fingers projecting therein so as to come in contact with the edge of the the inlet, substantially as and for thepurpose 40 set forth.

8. A check-receiver having a mouth or inlet, a threat, a rotary wheel or disk with lingers on one side of the throat, anda guard and guideplate with a spring-arm on the other side thereof, a bell and a bell-hammer, the latter being tripped by the fingers of the rotary wheel or disk and afterward locking the same, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ASHER B. GILL.-

\Vitnesses:

A. 1 GRANT, \V. F. Kmounn. 

